Jim's Bookshelf

Beskrivelse
Industriously (if incorrectly) alphabetized by first sentence, by a certain amnesiac archangel in A.Z. Fell's Soho antiquarian bookstore, as seen in Good Omens season 2.
1
I Capture the Castle
af Dodie Smith
9,027 medlemmer
288 anmeldelser
4.1
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alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
2
No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley
af Rita Marley
110 medlemmer
4.2
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: I was an ambitious girl child.
3
En Fortælling om to Byer
af Charles Dickens
35,710 medlemmer
444 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....
4
The Crow Road
af Iain Banks
3,180 medlemmer
60 anmeldelser
4
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was the day my grandmother exploded.
5
Den mystiske sag om hunden i natten : roman
af Mark Haddon
43,628 medlemmer
1,313 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was 7 minutes after midnight.
6
Punkt 22
af Joseph Heller
39,199 medlemmer
514 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was love at first sight.
7
Kærlighed i koleraens tid
af Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27,251 medlemmer
400 anmeldelser
4
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
8
The Bell Jar
af Sylvia Plath
27,445 medlemmer
486 anmeldelser
4
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
9
1984
af George Orwell
79,902 medlemmer
1,246 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
10
(Big Sleep, The) Det byder man ikke Carmen
af Raymond Chandler
10,047 medlemmer
277 anmeldelser
4
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
11
Den store Gatsby
af F. Scott Fitzgerald
70,342 medlemmer
1,139 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
12
Forbandede ungdom
af J. D. Salinger
68,195 medlemmer
1,065 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like…
13
Den onde greve
af Lemony Snicket
20,721 medlemmer
482 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
14
Herzog
af Saul Bellow
5,132 medlemmer
60 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
15
Stolthed og fordom
af Jane Austen
78,368 medlemmer
1,346 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
16
Good Omens
af Terry Pratchett
33,770 medlemmer
775 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was a nice day.